Word: controller
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Valuable to the aggressive B. & O. will be the C. & A. system which has served Illinois since 1861, which once had Abraham Lincoln for lawyer, later carried his funeral coach. B. & O. holds bonds giving Lt control now, and these will be applied against the purchase price, leaving approximately $1,000,000 more to pay. But B. & O. purchases the property subject to some $50,000,000 in other obligations. The 'Interstate Commerce Commission places a value of $80,000,000 on C. & A. and last week stockholders, headed by Senator James Reed of Missouri, attempted in vain to prevent...
...wages on Federal works already authorized. While Democrats forgetful of their harmony pledges grumbled against giving him so much loose change with no strings attached, the House Appropriations Committee framed a bill for $110,000,000 to be used on road building, waterways, flood control, etc., promised that the balance would be forthcoming in the routine supply measures. ¶ In New York, John Davison Rockefeller & son gave Chairman Seward Prosser's committee $1,000,000, providing 200,000 days of work for the jobless. With Edward Stephen Harkness's gift of $500,000, the committee's total...
...policy." This policy would be: 1) "Building within the commonwealth a civilization . . . largely insulated from the wrecking forces of the rest of the world," this by means of tariff agreements with the Dominions; 2) protection of the British consumer against increased food and raw material prices by an "Import Control Board"; 3) modernization and re-equipment of British industries under a "National Planning Board"; 4) postponement ("not repudiation") of Britain's War debt payments until the Mosley "reconstruction program" shall have been completed. Obviously the Conservative Sunday Express was justified in splashing out the manifesto under a derisive screamer...
...cortex has some relation to the sex organs. Enlargement may occur with pseudohermaphroditism (the "man"' or 'woman" has the genitals of the apparently opposite sex). Enlargement may cause premature puberty. A tumor after puberty makes women hairy, their voices masculine. The normal cortex seems to control cellular growth throughout the body. Hence the experimental use of a blind extract to treat cancer (TIME, Feb. 24 et seq.}. The medulla secretes epinephrine, hormone which affects blood pressure. In some way it influences the skin color and possibly muscular vigor. That is one reason why most physiologists have believed...
...League is regarded from a critical point of view, with the action of the United States in not joining being analyzed. An interesting forecast is made of the future position of the United States as concerns its participation in European affairs and in attempts to establish some sort of control for the whole world...